BEING CyberSMART...
first question then: Why do LEARNERS need to be CYBERSMART?
- Empowers learners to be positively connected citizens
- Confident, connected, actively involved lifelong learners
- Develops an authentic audience
- Develops the personal voice of each child
- Develops students’ employability
- Raises student achievement
- Deliver 21st Century Education to 21st Century Learners
watch this VIDEO:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=yFxNb2XKRRU
link to the government cybersmart week 2019
what does this look like in our class rooms?
WITH GREATER POWER COMES GREATER RESPONSIBILITY!!They have:
- powerful devices
- ultra-fast connection/internet
- access to WWW
We need to keep our kids safe. It is like driving on a fast highway at top speed, you would never drive with your kids in a car without having all the safety features, why do you allow them on the internet with out safety features???
Every time they are online it creates a digital footprint. Empower your learners to harness technology in smart and clever ways. Focus should be on CYBERSMART continuously through the year.
We are giving them the building blocks to be life-long learners who are connected, confident and actively involved. Partnership/participation and protection...teacher can assist them how to be cybersmart learners.
Lots of "other stuff" happening for our students on line, that we as adults/school are not aware of.
for example, ads taking them to the "wrong sites" while gaming, etc.
this is the link to our kawa of care
Teach students how to be:
smart learners, have a smart footprint, have smart relationships.
Here is a link to the SMART site
What are the common things that us as teacher experience as problems with our students using technology:
- worsen handwriting
- not discerning readers
- time spent online playing games with kids in other time zones, come to school exhausted!
- using the first link/first research and believe it is true
- they are not selective readers/ fake news/ how to validate the sites
- they copy what they read/ don't write it in their own words
how do we empower SMART online learners?
Plan to include: Learn create share pedagogy, cybersmart, smart values and kawa of care in each lesson.
Look at the smart site, and include the relevant bits to your lesson, to guide the students how to be CYBERSMART. Problem is that they think they are CYBERSMART, but they are not.
https://images.app.goo.gl/uhysBnZJYB68P99T6
Understand that every time they connect, collaborate and share online it combines to create their digital footprint.
